Pete Doherty jailed for sharing crack-pipe with tragic heiress
Pete Doherty was jailed for six months today after he was caught on film smoking a crack-pipe with heiress Robyn Whitehead just days before her death.
Despite repeated convictions for drug-related offences Doherty, was today beginning only his third prison sentence.
The Babyshambles star and former boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss was arrested in January last year by police investigating the death of 27-year-old Miss Whitehead, the granddaughter of the late environmentalist Teddy Goldsmith.
The film-maker who died on January 24 , 2010, as a result of heroin poisoning had spent the last 10 days of her life making a documentary about Doherty. But Snaresbrook crown court heard her death was not caused by the drugs she was seen to share with Doherty and his 42-year-old friend Peter "Wolfman" Wolfe, who was today jailed for 12 months.
Sentencing 32-year-old Doherty, Judge David Radford said: "From what I have heard and what I have read there is no doubt that you are a talented and successful musician. However, you have an appalling record of committing offences of the kind for which you fall to be sentenced today."
Doherty and Wolfe were charged when footage seized by police showed all three smoking crack-cocaine on a "small, adapted brandy bottle" at a flat in Hackney. The star was seen using a knife to cut from a "white block" before placing the substance on the pipe on January 23.
The previous day Wolfe was recorded smoking from the same pipe before passing it to Miss Whitehead and helping her to light it. The drugs had been bought by Wolfe on January 22.
He and Miss Whitehead had travelled to the Hackney flat that day from her family home under the pretext that she was "looking after" him following his release from a rehabilitation course. Outside court, Miss Whitehead's friend Claire Ray said: "She just got swept away a little bit at the end. I want to emphasise for her family that she was not one of them at all, they did not deserve to know her."
Doherty of Durley, Wiltshire, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of cocaine while Wolfe pleaded guilty to two counts of cocaine possession and one count of supplying the drug.
Doherty was first arrested for possessing drugs in October 2005 and since then has repeatedly admitted possession of class A substances.
Today's conviction was his 25th for drug-related offences. In 2008, he served 29 days of a 14-week sentence in Wormwood Scrubs after breaching a suspended sentence for drugs charges. Last week it was announced Doherty would not face any charges over the 2006 death of partygoer Mark Blanco.
I didn't lead Robyn astray I loved her
Pete Doherty has been left "broken" by the death of Robyn Whitehead, he claimed today.
He wrote on a blog that she was his "best friend" but had been a drug-user from the age of 12 and had asked him "to inject her, to score for her". He added: "I did not lead her astray. I loved her."
On the night she died, he said, he had left her alone "p****d off that I wouldn't give her any drugs".
He said he was "sick to my heart with sadness".
